Associations

(Live and Learn Italian is an intensive language and culture holiday in the small town of Agnone, in Alto Molise, a territory where prisoners of war were helped by the contadini. Engage with the community while studying Italian, visiting cultural sights and cooking. Mention MSMT when booking, and L&LI will make a donation for each student.)

(The WW2 Escape and Evasion Information Exchange website was launched in 2010 as an extension of the Conscript Heroes site. Included are an Escaper List with 4,400 names of men known to have escaped or evaded successfully, lists of MI9, IS9, LIB and MIS-X reports, as well as various articles and lists of men helped by some of the larger escape lines. The site is also intended to encourage enquiries and the free exchange of E&E.)

Moral Courage Award

MSMT is honouring the courage of the Italians who sheltered escaping PoWs with its “Moral Courage Award 2018”. The scheme runs in Lucca Province, in co-operation with the Institute for the History of the Resistance and the Contemporary Age, Lucca (ISREC). Read the English version

Fontanellato celebration 2018

The town of Fontanellato, from where 600 Allied prisoners of war escaped in 1943 after the Armistice with Italy, has invited supporters of MSMT to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the event in September 2018. Read more

Frank Unwin’s memoirs

Accounts of incarceration as a PoW in Italy and Germany will have an important addition in April Memoirs of Frank Unwin when Frank Unwin, MBE, publishes his story of capture and escape. Memoirs of Frank Unwin

Tenna Valley Trail 2018

The annual Tenna Valley Freedom Trail, co-hosted by MSMT and the Escape Lines Memorial Society, runs from May 16-21, 2018. Read more